live now to new center day gunfire heard in cairo as angry protesters march on the muslim brotherhood headquarters these latest pictures coming through from the egyptian capital we'll update you this also. cypriots panic over billions in frozen savings and lash out at their government angered by job cuts and harsh treatment from europe. china's new leaders in moscow in his first official foreign visit the two powers cemented their partnership with a number of energy trade and cooperation dales. and guantanamo bay officials acknowledge the number of hunger strikers at the detention center is growing while human rights groups but the figure now at over one hundred.

eleven even if you just joined us coming over here at the new center tonight live with you on our top stories you just heard thousands of anti-government protesters are clashing with riot police outside the muslim brotherhood headquarters in the egyptian capital cairo true is there for us now either bell what's actually going on in cairo how violent is this protest bring us up to speed. it's been very safe clashes between anti-government protest because it's a pool to them it's another had a key strategic away from the main head cool kids all the instruments create it very early this afternoon when. rival groups take each other as i said a few streets away from its main headquarters it's been hurting a lot of anger as we've seen to begin scaring government definitely hearing some

fires accosting which side has been shooting at us not to get to grow people carrying a. sling shot in the last few minutes hundreds of marched on the mother had coat is not to security presence in mind so can lead to god they need time to area all the way to keep themselves have gone to the last they're going to protect to find articles of the law. because the last few hours have conscious not to break out into the. protected now engaged with the police is about to begin the process if they told me this is not because of us and that's the time line numbers i'm on generally so long we. had people here saying that because of it i'm offering them. closing as malicious and that's a quick on the very fine the police feeling that the president gets to go to to

a quiet protest protest i'm on the street child at the moment there are still thousands in the area some chanting p. three holding flags. protesting his gate with the mission brotherhood supported in the face. some greeks said taking up against the clearly expected much further violence not going down or a bell to thanks for bringing us up to speed a scone today gyptian opposition activist mohammed omar is live in london for us mr maher hi frank stuck in the time to be with me why is this so much anger the muslim brotherhood brotherhood this is been brewing for a while what's today. well thank you so much for having me today unfortunately i couldn't catch the previous the last few minutes from or your conversation for technical problems however what's happening today is a part of the chaos that is like going on now in egypt. and it goes

without saying that. the people in charge the president is has got huge responsibility to watch what's going on now on the other hand we have to be fair and you have to recognize the actual problems and egyptian society the violence that has been hiding and as we've been strapped and you know under the carpet for ages them for years and years and we are the very same people who were praising like a lot of violence in the past and now we have to recheck and see what is what's happening today is it serving that evolution does it have a point. ok mom and i'm not sure if you can hear me that the line just broke up so i just want to check you can actually amy speaking to you yeah yeah i can hear a great comment morsi survive this you think of course was the army's on his side as the elected president which is very obvious he was having his friday prayers today with the heads of the army the police has been with all with all the

mistakes that have been happening has been. i would say reasonable given the circumstances and it's as simple as this if you have seventy billion dollars how much are you willing to pay to protect them. ten fifteen twenty eight how much can this to talk country very poor option a lot of people are paying a lot of money to keep this chaos going on it's a very difficult job if you want to try but it's not the muslim brotherhood what has any other viable option is there one. i think the other option. don't really matter because at the end of the day you get me the president you like after one year from his you know time i would just go up and take it take him down this is what people would tell you so we have to we have to agree in a basic rule here we have to we have i mean we have to push very hard and to continue that the real revolution which just correct and to be productive at the

very same time we have to stick to that rule otherwise we're going to spend tens and tens of years like this. just can you describe for me paint a picture of the opposition are they a united front what how are they coming across how they banding themselves well i think this is a very special case where you hear about you know you all we always hear about violence when the government talks their position but now i think there is violence from a government or spot i can see violence to position and the opposition leaders have been always promoting the violence line and i don't think they agree a lot in between them. and this is been very clear recent you know a lot of figures on remove from the front a lot of people how have withdrawn and i cannot even point a finger at. to call an opposition leader now to be honest. ok thanks so much mama tamara gyptian opposition activist we do appreciate your time thank you very much. and you say. russia and china of sun

a number of trade agreements through the new chinese leaders landmark visit here to moscow today paying pick the russian capital for his first trip abroad since taking office earlier this month for more on the symbolic and material meeting of this lets them talk to us and this is now either and what's come out of the chinese leaders visit here is first one of course to moscow and very quickly after it was brought into power to. well kevin russia and china crown jewel energy cooperation have been polished today in the shining brightly after a slew of deals were signed the most prominent probably being one between ross now which recently bought out t. in k. b.p. to become your number one oil company in the world moving exxon mobil out of its spot they signed a cooperation deal with russia with china's top energy company this of course is a tremendous step and will have enormous economic ramifications the main want a project between russia and china to deliver gas it's very simple china needs gas

and russia wants to be that number one provider and russia china certainly became one step closer to this on this first day of the chinese president's visit it's important to point out that another symbol that we can delve into of this visit it's the first choice the first country that the chinese president has come to since stepping into office and let's not forget that vladimir putin. made the same gesture when he stepped into his third term as president say he went to china first and this is certainly being watched around the world the reaction of course various depends on who is watching but certainly this is the message that this relationship is strong in floodplain and pointed out very very frankly that china is number one partner in the world so that's very clear now besides energy cooperation another thing they do share which really brings them together is their view of the world they share a lot of points on their stances on many pressing global issues and they are all

for. to help shift the world into to be a more vaulting pole or what. i'm. good at but it's pushing to powers together a common goal to shift global balance is forging a tie between russia and china that could soon be unbreakable yes a new chinese leader his first stop moscow something surely washington must notice but is brushing off no they don't take it seriously at their own peril russia and china fellow brics major trade partners and team players at the u.n. security council are there too often stand up against intervention and to gresham moscow and beijing are seen really impacts of nato backed attacks and they don't want the instability that washington seeks in the middle east raging in moscow or that in business china is booming and russia is right next door the potential for

gas deals and pipelines are vast as soon as the two can agree on a tight russia also sees china as a way to diversify its economy like helping tap untouched water sources in the east and investing in the west now they could join forces on cooperation militarily that is the inevitable i think result of feet the type of us that egypt the civic pivot that is is threatening china on one side and the nato increasing a military encircled into russia on the other side the more the us pushes its agenda in certain parts of the world the closer they push russia and china together that opens the door for growth and enormous economic ramifications the nations that make up the brics group may be divergent but experts now see they are much more than an acronym coined by a guy at goldman sachs. this again is something that russia and china

strongly share a belief there brics need to move move forward that they really need to move from being a dialogue based group to a group that sees action how effective it is brick so much of a global role does it play. there's no doubt that it plays a big role but i think both china and russia would agree and have agreed really today that it's not playing a big enough role the problem here is that it's not quite putting its money where its mouth is and what needs to happen for brics to be able to to propose solutions to real global problems not real that's not a great word for for widespread global issues like syria per se what they need to do to have more power is to create this brics development bank which they are planning on moving further on in south africa next week but what they need to do is get back on the ground and running so that they can provide a counterbalance to financial institutions like the i.m.f.

all right thanks for bringing us up to speed on the visit today from china appreciate it. now riot police have called off the cypriot parliament is angry crowds descended on the largest legislature there for a fifth day running the protest as a government not to cave into a huge pressure brussels wants the cypriot parliament to push through a highly unpopular tax that could wipe out ten percent of people savings the a proposals have already been rejected was put there is growing concern that cyprus will be forced to accept it at some point the country's banks have been paralyzed from which a week now and his tests are sort of reports next tonight people are bracing themselves for the worst. all of this panic this negativity started of course on the announcement over the weekend from brussels that in order to get a ten billion euro bailout package cyprus will have to cough up about five point eight billion in the suggestion was to impose a tax on that holders the pause it's now ninety one per cent of cypriots according to a poll have been against that back tax and we've seen protests on the streets of people

angry really at the e.u. at the wake up and specifically a germany they feel of the country has been cornered into a position where they really have no choice but to take a very hard decision now here's what some of the cypriots feel right now. towards europe i believe. this is unfair of him given to the new south everybody says he's going to start going over there we're going to build a series of notes about this stuff first plane and he should be a sure thing and they didn't have these shoes usually is you know just for women resume bizarre buehrle vijender money wants to send the russians all the cycles in the first thing. in the boardroom well the mood here in nicosia cyprus remains rather negative it seems of the people feel that they're receiving one bad news after another the latest being that the european central bank will only continue to provide liquidity to the country until monday and after that it will only continue

to do so if there was an e.u. i.m.f. program in place now this means that there really is a cash problem on the ground cypriots going out to a.t.m.'s early in the morning trying to get as much cash as they could though some have told me that the limit on their cars up to the amount that they could take for the bank has changed has been the work we've also been speaking to some shopkeepers they're really having a problem be seen big losses in their business and it's been a headache for them since this started. my business is down over seventy percent in just the last few days and it's about things you really worried that. and one of the direct effects of the financial predicament cyprus is you can already feel on the ground here the size of it put up only cash no visa cards allowed at this gas station they really want to hold on to as much cash as they could as the banks will be closed until next week and really they're not confident that the banks will reopen when the government said it would just to be safe

because he decides if you don't have cash you won't get us. to pay for our people to be. something we have to pay in cash so we take on the customer. now as the political leaders along with the financial sector here try to figure out a way to maneuver the country out of this predicament people are simply sitting tight trying to hold on against it was much cash as they can because really for them their main concern is how to get through these next few days when they've already experienced being in limbo for the past week reporting from nicosia cyprus that's our cilia we're told across this story you can be too by keeping up their website as well r t dot com twenty four seven now as germany deals one of its tax havens its citizens are increasingly popping up at another apparently panama that submerged is home to hundreds of firms and shell companies headed by top german bankers car body of factories an entrepreneur's as well as a family's the a revelation was made by

a hacker published the names and companies online let's talk about the show with christoph waltz dillies director of horse network's consultancy kristoffer you see you in a second before we do i just liked you when our audience of me to listening to the why that did it what motivated it must take a listen. now in tax havens people people do do they don't have an easy way to to feed our house how this economy works they should be aware that a lot of. companies are some of them digitally. as a way to to minimize. what was the that was the hacker unfortunately they lost christoph i promise you will get back to the little bit later maybe it was to overcome with emotion here in the hacker i don't know but we're going to break now we'll follow this story up very shortly i'm kevin zero in thank you for being with r.t. moscow.

more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operation.

promise we will try to get back to that part of our story crystal force a little bit later in the program meantime let's move on officials at the guantanamo bay detention center in cuba have acknowledged detainee's are joining the hunger strike over alleged mistreatment and human rights groups representing several inmates has reported the number is now over one hundred the pentagon though claims that figure is much well either way the protest is now into its forty fifth day approaching forty six which according to doctors marks a critical point when the body is deprived of food he's going to shoot you can as well. just this friday morning the spokesperson for guantanamo robert zubrin

responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday we have twenty six hunger strikers with each receiving actual feeds this is an increase from thursday which is twenty five a date we have two detainees of the detainees hospital for rehydration observation also an actual street last time robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on the robber duran says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in one column an attorney say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the

military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and not just the attorneys but we journalists those well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to our client in guantanamo this week she told me there is a says among defense attorneys that they're being deliberately ignored by the authorities please take a listen so assuming there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the to the department to bear arms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about the detainees condition and we have heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of it the u.s. south in command and that's the command that oversees. kuantan m o has just requested forty nine million dollars to build

a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations he says are necessary since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the potential taxpayer bill for upgrading the deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo indefinitely there is a growing sense among prisoners there half of whom by the way have been cleared for release that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin now there's still one former u.k. resident checa ammo being held at guantanamo without charges because when alice is on the george galloway's member of the british parliament for the respect party to scalloway evening to you do you see the u.k.'s doing enough to help here not at all in fact none of the british detainees were ever given the help that they deserved as british citizens from the british government in fact as you probably know in

some cases the british intelligence services were complicit were colluding collaborating with the jailers on guantanamo bay and giving questions reading questions to the american intelligence officers. have been illegally held now in many cases for well over a decade some of them taken to guantanamo when they were boys now they are men as your correspondent just said half of them already cleared for for removal from the camp but still they are facing a future absolutely uncertain the main thing that sticks out here is that nobody else is talking about this subject if this were happening in russia if people had disappeared into a legal black hole in russia and were facing indefinite incarceration

without trial without charge and without access of attorneys would never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch and list international they'd be screaming from the rooftops of westminster but i don't why because this is an american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of ministration by the way don't forget obama promised to close guantanamo and now he's actually expanding. my very next point we're now here in the u.s. is planning on spending tens of millions of dollars on this. in the name of making it more comfortable for the residents that are there surely or heartened by that no . oh yes you know up a prison camp where you are held without charge without trial indefinitely where

your lawyer has no right to see you where you have no rights of any kind can never be made more comfortable even if you put thick carpets and big armchairs like we have in the british parliament in it it will never be comfortable it remains an outrage but the significance of the investment is this they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of new dollars on guantanamo if they didn't intend to keep it as a legal black hole where our so called illegal combatants are incarcerated people by the way seized and kidnapped from around the world and taken their drug and manacled in many cases so this is the stuff of fiction but unfortunately it's fact in two thousand and thirteen in obama's america so this money should be much better spent you think on closing it along with obama's promise which doesn't seem to be fulfilled anytime soon. well you know or the western governments are forever

lecturing everyone on the presumption of innocence a man is innocent until he's proven guilty on the need for jew process and on the need for no one to be incarcerated indefinitely without charge without trial without conviction there for ever talking about that when lecturing other countries but they don't practice what they preach and we in britain have had many guantanamo's ourselves control our doors belmarsh prison and so on were similar kinds of prisoners have been held in pretty similar circumstances and of course it does nothing to stop terrorism of the terrorists george and they should have been put on trial and convicted as terrorists i'm ever so grateful for your time we've got another guest to get to thank you for making your thoughts clear tonight much appreciated all right i'm going to try to get a kristoff course in berlin show way back to one of our previous stories that panama it's emerged is home to hundreds of firms and shell companies headed by top

german bankers car manufacturers entrepreneurs as well as families i gather we have actually lost that signal let's just see if we can go to christophe for a second no we can't ok we'll get back to a little bit later no worries christophe forstall is with us the wonders of modern technology says live news thank you for bearing with us crystal forstall hello again we were talking about part of the we were talking about the fact that german companies using shell companies they're investing their money there it's not just russia is doing it in cyprus let's take a listen in. that clip earlier on in case of us missed it let's listening guys. the world economy. is now in tax havens people people don't do don't have an easy way to to see how or how how this economy works they should be aware that a lot of rich. companies in and in are some of them which intimately. as a way to minimize taxes so kristoff the billion dollar question why is it that bad

money's been locked away in these tax havens it is very clear that for the very rich for the ultra rich who can buy just anything who billionaires that for them taxes are just costs they have their houses apartments real estate all over the globe for them it doesn't matter where they live so for them it matters we don't want to pay taxes and that's why they go anywhere not just to panama and a big difference in tax evasion tax avoidance isn't there what are they doing invent you know these huge investors they are nowadays doing a mix of investments and part of it is highly speculated part of it is in real value economy like car companies graphic risk for example and a part of it is of course in techs havens that's usual with them that's their usual business and they do it because they have no mother country to themselves so to say

how in the big names here involved allegedly porsche volkswagen as well as germany's richest woman or phantom shell companies in panama i mean nothing wrong with it depends how you interpret it i guess whether it becomes tax avoidance tax evasion but what can you do to stop these loopholes. it is very clear there is no into a master of very little or too little international cooperation on this and of course you know if you have families who would not notice that they lost their one five fifteen million new euros necessary for one of the big german parties for the whole federal election campaign you know that there's nothing that's peanuts to them so you know democracy is left out in this kind of business crystal thanks for your thoughts sir is a bit grateful we did get to in the end it's a pleasure to see you as ever thank you. with more international news in about thirty minutes time it is now coming up to twenty nine minutes past eight mosco

time off the break the people of els crossed hope for you. jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week what was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgery i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with said.